The Goethe-Oberlyzeum was a girls' gymnasium in

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, named in honor of the writer

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History

In 1913 a women's teaching institute (''Lehrerinnenbildungsanstalt'') was converted into a gymnasium.Albinus, p. 105

Fritz Gause Fritz Gause (4 August 1893 – 24 December 1973) was a German historian, archivist, and curator described as the last great historian of his native city, Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), East Prussia. Gause's most important work was his three-v ...

began lecturing there in 1922.Schmidtke, p. 298 The school, which was located on Friedrichstraße in

Neue Sorge Königstraße Neue Sorge, also known as Königstraße or Königstrasse after its main boulevard, was a quarter of eastern Königsberg, Germany. Its territory is now part of the Leningradsky District of Kaliningrad, Russia. Etymology The origina ...

, was acquired by the city of Königsberg in 1925.Gause, p. 77 Its directors included Bruno Dannenbaum and Richard Scheibe. The building survived

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and was razed in January 2018, under protest from presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak and other conservationists, in

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